American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean During World War II

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Buchanan is a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Vermont. He received his PhD and MA in History from Rutgers University, New Jersey, and earned his BA in Modern History from the University of Oxford. Buchanan has taught American history, global history, and various military history courses. He has published articles on various aspects of the diplomatic, military, and cultural history of World War II in publications including the Journal of Contemporary History, Diplomacy and Statecraft, the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, and Global War Studies. Klappentext This book offers a thorough reinterpretation of US engagement with the Mediterranean during World War II. Zusammenfassung This book argues that the United States had a powerful and sustained grand strategic approach to the countries of the Mediterranean during World War II and that! under the active leadership of Franklin Roosevelt! it attained substantial wartime and post-war advantage by pursuing this course. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. 'The president's personal policy'; 2. The decision for Torch; 3. Keeping Spain out of the war: Washington's appeasement of Franco; 4. Torch, Darlan, and the French Maghreb; 5. 'The intricacies of colonial rule'; 6. 'Senior partners?'; 7. 'An investment for the future'; 8. The Tehran Conference and the Anglo-American struggle over the invasion of southern France; 9. Helping De Gaulle get his 'talons pretty deeply dug into France'; 10. Italy 'enters the postwar period'; 11. Spain, Wolfram, and the 'liberal turn'; 12. The Culbertson Mission and the open door; 13. 'Balkan-phobia?' The United States, Yugoslavia, and Greece, 1940-5; 14. 'We have become Mediterraneanites'.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Buchanan, Andrew (University of Vermont) Buchanan, Andrew N. Buchanan, Buchanan Andrew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2016
• EAN: 9781107620384
• ISBN: 978-1-107-62038-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Mediterranean countries, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Battles and campaigns, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General